This issue of id21 insights – a collection of articles summarising recent research on fragile states – asks how can interventions in fragile states…
Tropical deforestation currently accounts for nearly 20 percent of carbon emissions that cause global warming. A group of forest-rich developing nations have…
As the team from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and King’s College in London report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they have now been able to use…
The research reveals that glucose plays a key role in enabling healthy beta cells, which secrete insulin, to develop in the pancreas of an embryo. Glucose…
The biosensor is faster, more portable and economic than the expensive laboratory methods which are used to detect contaminants, while having a very similar…
“Duolog has been busy with developing BitWise as part of the larger Socrates Framework,” commented Ray Bulger CEO, “Our open standards approach makes it easy…
The conference, which builds on the initiative of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the conference on rural areas held in Skegness in July 2006, will…
The two companies are UK based satellite operator Orbit Research Ltd. and the German company MediaMobil Communication GmbH. They announced their intention to…
In a unique study of women’s security and participation in three post conflict societies—Northern Ireland, South Africa and Lebanon—researchers found that…
The biggest and most comprehensive survey of the natural resources of the British countryside begins this week. The Countryside Survey will be carried out by a…
Orion is one of the most famous and recognisable constellations in the sky. At its heart, it harbours a vast cloud of gas and dust, the Orion Nebula, which is…
Equipped and resourced to the highest specification, the world-class facility establishes for the first time a Core Technology Unit to support the use and…
Staff at the Royal Darwin Hospital – who treated many of the casualties – also received vital personal support from mental health nurses, especially as they…
In order to avoid possible fraud in labelling, a number of different technologies have been developed in recent years to comply with the regulations of the…
A new study, published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology, finds that adding a bovine protein called lactoferrin to the existing treatment may yield…
The observation was made on the night of 4th May by Marton Hidas and Tim Brown, of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope, Santa Barbara, California,…